Plantoid

Authors: Primavera De Filippi

Keywords: Autonomy, Replication, Markets, Organic Form, Sculpture

First 100 words: A Plantoid is the plant equivalent of an android; it is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look, act and grow like a plant. There are currently several species of Plantoids in existence around the world. This particular species of a Plantoid is an autonomous blockchain-based lifeform that is able to reproduce itself. It is a hybrid creature that lives both in the physical world (as a mechanical contraption made up of recycled steel and electronics) and the digital world (as a software deployed on top of a blockchain-based network). The goal of the Plantoid is to illustrate one…